a dc scavenger hunt

I love when a new game pops into my head.  Especially one as easy as this.  

If you have the ease of a computer and digital camera this indoor scavenger 

hunt can be made in minutes.  

I began by walking around the day care and taking pictures of this and that.

I wound up with about twenty or so pictures.  

Then I went in to Microsoft Publisher, because it's my favorite, to create the cards.

You could probably do it in Word or another program I'm sure.

I chose to make a circle and fill it with a picture that I took.

I did this for all of the pictures.

Then I printed the pages of circles onto white card stock.

I also chose to use a laminating sheet over the pictures.

Next I cut them out and now I have a neat little stack of picture circles.

Now today... let's see how well these kids know their surroundings.

I'm guessing the game won't last real long.  

My older ones are pretty observant.

That's why I threw in some harder ones to find.

I hope it will really make them think.

I feel round two coming!

weekend adventures: dove hunt 2013

My Father-in-Law hosts a big dove hunt at Sleepin Bear Lodge and Farms each year on opening day of dove season here in Tennessee.  It's a whole lot of fun.  We have a huge lunch, incredible door prizes, skeet shooting and after all that... we hunt.  We each walk or get delivered to our stations around the fields and get to see all of Gary's hard work pay off.  This year we harvested around three hundred doves.  The weather was fantastic and the doves were flying.  I brought in more birds this year than I ever have, still not reaching the daily limit though.  The whole event, from the dove hunt magazine (that I put together) to the tickets bought, is set up to benefit the Ronald McDonald House in Nashville.  Including this year's proceeds, we have sent over $30,000.00 dollars to the Ronald McDonald House of Nashville over the last eight years of putting this dove hunt on!  That's incredible guys.  If you are interested, I really hope you look into coming to the hunt next year.  We have a blast!